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“... people’s deaths) easier for British agents. But M, in the shape of a distressed and depressed Ralph Fiennes, has lost control of its diffusion.Safin is initially an interesting figure, inviting us to wonder why revenge is so wrong and aggressive foreign policy so right. But before too long the film gives up on all its complexity, and decides it wants ...”

“... previously mentioned Merrily We Dance, an adaptation of a Broadway play already in production with Ralph Fiennes as the director. The joke seems crude – Gene Autry meets Noël Coward, say – but the tone here, as in the rest of the film, has those curious qualities the Coen brothers specialise in. Everything is slow, a little obvious, and whatever is ...”

“... the British and Kenyan governments. The story has now been made into a film by Fernando Meirelles. Ralph Fiennes stars as Justin Quayle, a modest functionary at the British High Commission in Nairobi, whose young wife, Tessa, played by Rachel Weisz, is an embarrassment to the authorities and a heroine in Kibera, a shantytown of approximately a million ...”

“... it.’ Who’s he? He is the manager of the Grand Budapest Hotel, one Monsieur Gustave, played by Ralph Fiennes in a very funny campy mode that manages to be both humane and ironic, the real fey thing and its parody. But the world that vanished before Monsieur Gustave entered it belongs to Stefan Zweig, whom Anderson at the end of the movie credits as an ...”

“... plan to blow up a stadium but makes a bit of a mess in the process and is grounded by the new M (Ralph Fiennes) when he gets back to London. It emerges that the stadium plot was part of a campaign of co-ordinated terrorist bombings undertaken by Spectre to nudge nine governments into pooling their intelligence resources in a single programme called ...”

“... earnestly impersonate) is M again, but her career is about to be terminated, as a smooth-talking Ralph Fiennes tells us. When Bond reappears from his apparent death, he looks terrible, and has no doubt kept himself gaunt and unshaved as a reproach to M – she did after all tell a British agent to take a shot at him. He says that both of them have been ...”

“... of the role of peacemaker stripped of his manhood. I wondered at the sudden shift of feeling when Ralph Fiennes, in his recent Coriolanus, sank to his knees for the terrible and pathetic line ‘O mother, mother!/What have you done?’ – as if this were a surrender and tragic reproach by the ‘boy of tears’. One would like to know how Ryan handled ...”

“... their first date, they haven’t kissed yet and they don’t have the exchange about the meat. Ralph Fiennes, looking bored over their steak and onions, says to Julianne Moore: ‘I’m in love, you know.’ She, equally wooden, tells him that she is, too. (Moore, who can be very good, seems to be concentrating so hard on her accent that she forgets ...”

“... have to stop and ask yourself what are the odds that Eugene Onegin happened to look exactly like Ralph Fiennes, and yet a teapot from the right historical period is a real part of the world that created the character and plot. If you had enough of the textile samples and magazine pictures and sofas, maybe you could re-create the insect.When Kemal visits ...”

“... occasional errors, but this one contains enough to drive a reviewer to record some of them. Sir Ralph Winwood has become ‘Sir Henry’, benefit of clergy did not only apply to males, Bedford was never a member of the Providence Company, and we do not have a stable baseline for undergraduate numbers in the mid-16th century. It is not true that no statutes ...”

“... from Hay. Reactions to his appearance were mixed. He was described as looking puffy and unkempt. Ralph Fiennes, who was in the audience, described the event as ‘compelling’ but suggested it also made him feel deeply uncomfortable. On 5 June​ I picked Julian up at Ellingham Hall and drove him to the police station. He got into the car with the ...”